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Alexander Medawar Garland (born 26 May 1970) is an English author, screenwriter, and director. He rose to prominence with his novel The Beach (1996). He received praise for writing the Danny Boyle films 28 Days Later (2002) and Sunshine (2007), as well as Never Let Me Go (2010) and Dredd (2012). In video games, he co-wrote Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (2010) and was a story supervisor on DmC: Devil May Cry (2013). Garland made his directorial debut when he wrote and directed the sci-fi thriller Ex Machina (2014). He earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. He won three British Independent Film Awards, including Best Screenplay, Best Director, and Best British Independent Film for the film. His second movie, Annihilation (2018), an adaptation of the 2014 novel of the same name, was a critical success. He wrote, directed, and executive produced the FX miniseries Devs (2020), followed by the horror thriller Men (2022) and the dystopian action thriller Civil War (2024). He also co-directed the war film Warfare (2025). A24 produced the three films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alex Garland, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The world of Dune is no more, and the Imperium of old is long gone. Rakis has long since been transformed into a verdant paradise, and the universe has been ruled by the terrible God-Emperor Leto II for the past 3,500 years. Having given up his human form, the hybrid of man and sandworm commands the Imperium with an iron fist. The spacing guild travels the cosmos only with his approval, the breeding programs of the Bene Gesserit have been usurped, and the Tleilaxu are forced to grant Leto legions of Gholas of the legendary warrior Duncan Idaho to command his all-female armies of Fish Speakers. However, the God-Emperor is not without enemies. On the fringes of the Imperium, the daughter of his own mojordomo plots to overthrow him, the newest Duncan Idaho ghola is proving difficult to sway and chafes under his role in this society so alien to him. Worse still, the Ixian Technocracy has presented Leto with a particular gift, a woman who shows not only incredible compassion and love for Leto, but who is also completely hidden from his otherwise omniscient powers of prescience!
